Teh One Who Knocks
08-31-2011, 01:22 AM
by Jose Zavala - The Arizona Republic
A Phoenix maintenance worker became trapped in a conveyor belt under a baggage carousel at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Tuesday morning.
The man is believed to be a maintenance employee who was working beneath the baggage carousel area in Terminal 2 where passengers pick up their luggage. The man sustained multiple injuries but is in stable condition and was taken to a hospital.
"It was downstairs in a very tight area," Phoenix Fire Captain Jorge Enriquez said. "It was hard to get to him, and it was a tough extrication because there wasn't a lot of room down there."
The cause of the incident is not known.
The man, who is an employee of the Phoenix Aviation Department, was doing maintenance on the carousel, Phoenix Sky Harbor spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez said.
Dawn Patton, a customer service representative who works by the carousel, said that at about 8 a.m. she heard the man screaming for help and another man asking for scissors. She immediately grabbed a pair of scissors from her service desk and went downstairs to the trapped man to help cut him free. She found a few men down there attempting to free the man from the belt.
"It was a little bit difficult, but with everybody pulling on it we ripped it a lot easier," Patton said.
Emergency crews arrived at about 8:30 a.m. to extricate the man out from beneath the baggage carousel area. They found out that he had his hand and one of his legs pinned in the conveyor belt, Enriquez said.
A Phoenix maintenance worker became trapped in a conveyor belt under a baggage carousel at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Tuesday morning.
The man is believed to be a maintenance employee who was working beneath the baggage carousel area in Terminal 2 where passengers pick up their luggage. The man sustained multiple injuries but is in stable condition and was taken to a hospital.
"It was downstairs in a very tight area," Phoenix Fire Captain Jorge Enriquez said. "It was hard to get to him, and it was a tough extrication because there wasn't a lot of room down there."
The cause of the incident is not known.
The man, who is an employee of the Phoenix Aviation Department, was doing maintenance on the carousel, Phoenix Sky Harbor spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez said.
Dawn Patton, a customer service representative who works by the carousel, said that at about 8 a.m. she heard the man screaming for help and another man asking for scissors. She immediately grabbed a pair of scissors from her service desk and went downstairs to the trapped man to help cut him free. She found a few men down there attempting to free the man from the belt.
"It was a little bit difficult, but with everybody pulling on it we ripped it a lot easier," Patton said.
Emergency crews arrived at about 8:30 a.m. to extricate the man out from beneath the baggage carousel area. They found out that he had his hand and one of his legs pinned in the conveyor belt, Enriquez said.